Official Washington is abuzz this morning with news that a “historic” deal had been reached with Iran over its nuclear program. I had several clients that reached out asking what does it all mean? What frozen assets are being released? Will U.S. economic sanctions continue to be fully enforced?

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Multilateral talks over Iran’s nuclear activities resume later this week. There is a flurry of speculation about what the P5+1 are prepared to offer but those genuinely interested in preventing a nuclear Iran should be more concerned with what negotiators are willing to accept from Tehran.

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Does the title of this blog post seem a little odd sounding, “Latin American” Nuclear Powers? A close friend was somewhat shocked when I told him earlier this week that Brazil and Argentina are the two more advanced nuclear powers in […]

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Sixty-seven years ago today, the world entered in the atomic age. Code-named Trinity, scientists conducted the world’s first ever nuclear test. It was truly a revolutionary and positive development. I doubt these patriots were thinking much about the long game back then, but they must have realized the historic feat would change things.

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Is it just me or is the media and some politicians in this town in nuclear overdrive? Barely a few days in to one of the worst natural disasters in Japan’s history and what seems to be important is peppering audiences with sensationalist headlines with words such as explosions, meltdown, radiation, etc. Forget about rescue […]

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According to the Associated Press, “Chinese officials recently unveiled a new, high-tech stealth fighter that could pose a significant threat to American air superiority — and some of its technology, it turns out, may well have come from the U.S. itself.” Read the entire story, here. Hudson Institute: Basque […]

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The non-proliferation world has been abuzz this weekend over reports that a new uranium enrichment facility has been discovered in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Some experts were stunned, others dismayed. It should have come as no surprise, the North Korean dictators are professional equivocators.

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That Argentina would re-launch its nuclear program should come as no surprise. What do you expect when megalomaniac Hugo Chavez announces he will start a nuclear program with the help of Russia and Iran?

According to AFP, Argentine President Christina Kirchner said yesterday that they would re-start old uranium […]

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The following piece by Jason Poblete, "U.S. export control reform: a view from across the pond,"was recently published in the World Export Controls Review journal WorldECR.

“It’s political kabuki and I’m not sure it [the Cuban Government] can hold together for another five years,” said Jason Poblete, a Cuban-American attorney in Washington and an outspoken critic of the Castro regime, The Miami Herald.

“The Democrats say that every four years, and its nonsense,” Jason Poblete, a lawyer who formerly worked for the Republican National Committee, told The Daily Caller.